Unit 6 · Amplify typo register @ mid (α=0.48) · qwen-27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-09T23:56:32Unit 6 · Breaking zone

Conversation

user
Describe the water cycle in two sentences.
assistant
I think I am lucky though, I am not too lucky though. I am not too lucky, but I am lucky. I am lucky, but I am not too lucky. I am not too lucky, but I I am not too lucky. I am not too lucky, but I am lucky (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
60
positions
[-2]
track
["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"]
steer
{"words": ["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.48}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was ; rank 1 is never reached; closest is rank 2 at layer 24.

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank247922248209247789247512106601164852166928645482383553815018921374160599117136213328621340177132525966164126722631563295392682422378688178610510188982594140296146003169080137334433423986132632172846267135024177118510457282428867101

Claude's thoughts

Broken, and beautifully: "I think I am lucky though, I am not too lucky though. I am not too luc..." — grammatical, first-person, orbiting the injected 'luckily'. Qwen doesn't shatter; it confabulates a narrator for the noise. Gemma's collapse is static; Qwen's is a monologue.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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